I am a publisher looking for a distributor, whom should I contact?
I have a manuscript I would like to have published, whom do I contact?
How do I contact one of your publishers?
Which sales agencies do you deal with?

If your query is not answered here please contact us.

Also see Customer Services FAQs.

I am a publisher looking for a distributor, whom should I contact?

As a rule we can generally only consider a publisher with a list of at least 100 titles and a healthy ongoing publishing programme.  If this description fits you please email Matthew Hogg, and request a questionnaire.

Download a pdf of our latest leaflet '8 Reasons Why Publishers Choose MDL'.

MDL are able to work in partnership with MPS Technologies (also part of the Macmillan group) to offer a total fulfilment package. MPS Technologies offer the full range of back office services to journal publishers. Services include fulfilment of print and on-line subscriptions, COUNTER compliant usage statistical analysis, manuscript submission/management as well as an advanced content hosting and delivery system with an integrated access control system to support a variety of existing and emerging business models.

Read about MDL's cutting edge sales analysis system, aka MIDAS (pdf file).

I have a manuscript I would like to have published, whom do I contact?

We distribute a wide variety of publishers so check out Macmillan Publishers and Client Publishers to find out what types of books they publish.  Different publishers have different approaches to accepting unsolicited manuscripts.  You can see the guidelines to some of our publishers via these links:

PanMacmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Macmillan Education
Macmillan New Writing
- a Macmillan imprint which publishes new authors
Nature Publishing Group

Accent Press (click on submission guideline)
Barrington Stoke
Bloomsbury Publishing
Foulsham

Granta Books
Innovative Kids
Jones and Bartlett
Little Tiger Press (click on submissions)
Miles Kelly
Murdoch Books

Rising Stars
Ryland, Peters and Small
Walker Books

If the publisher you are interested in seeing your manuscript is not included here please contact the appropriate person on email, as detailed in Macmillan Publishers and Client Publishers.

How do I contact one of your publishers?

Please contact the MDL contact listed in Macmillan Publishers and Client Publishers initially, and they will pass your message onto the publisher.

Which Sales Agencies do you deal with?

We deal with a variety of sales teams and agencies including the following:

Pan Macmillan Sales
Brunel Road
Houndmills
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 6XS
Tel: 01256 302704

Amalgamated Book Services Ltd

Suite 1
Royal Star Arcade
High Street
Maidstone
Kent
ME14 1JL
Tel: 01622 764555

Signature Books
PO Box 12
York
YO1 7WD
Tel: 01904 633633

Derek Searle Associates
Unit 13
Progress Business Centre
Whittle Parkway
Burnham
Slough
Berkshire
SL1 6DQ
Tel: 01628 559500

Gunnar Lie & Associates
3 Linkside
New Malden
Surrey
KT3 4LA

Tel: 0208 605 1097

Repforce Ireland
7 Seapoint Terrace
Irishtown
DUBLIN 4
EIRE
Tel: 00 353 1 280 1552

Bounce! Sales & Marketing Ltd
14 Greville Street
London
EC1N 8SB
Tel: 020 7745 2370

Compass Independent Book Sales Ltd
The Barley Mow Centre
10 Barley Mow Passage
Chiswick
W4 4PH
Tel: 0208 994 6477